🇿🇦 South Africa · Insurance
Insurance in South Africa — health, travel, and digital-nomad cover, what is mandatory, and how to choose a plan.
Insurance is supervised under South Africa's financial-sector framework: the Prudential Authority covers insurer safety and the FSCA covers conduct and financial-services providers. Buyers should distinguish medical schemes, short-term insurance, life insurance and retirement products.
- Check that brokers and financial-services providers are authorised before relying on advice.
- Medical schemes are regulated separately from ordinary insurance products.
- Vehicle, property, liability and professional cover needs vary by lease, lender, employer and sector.
Official authorities
- Financial Sector Conduct Authority
Market-conduct regulator for financial services.
- SARB — Prudential Authority
Prudential supervisor of insurers.
Official-information aggregation, not legal advice. Always verify on the authority's own site.